Where is the Statue of Liberty?

The STATUE OF LIBERTY stands in NEW YORK HARBOR on LIBERTY ISLAND. USCIS accepts several answers: New York (Harbor); Liberty Island; New Jersey (because some maps show Liberty Island as part of NJ waters, though it's federally administered); near New York City; on the Hudson River. The statue was a gift from FRANCE to the United States in 1886, commemorating the alliance between the two nations during the American Revolution. Designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi with the iron framework by Gustave Eiffel (later designer of the Eiffel Tower), it stands 305 feet tall (including pedestal). The statue depicts a robed woman (representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom) holding a torch and a tablet inscribed with the date of the Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776). A famous poem by Emma Lazarus, 'The New Colossus,' is inscribed on a plaque at the pedestal: 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.' For millions of immigrants arriving in America by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Statue of Liberty was the first sight of their new country.